It’s time for WAM! Vancouver’s second installment of MONDAY MEDIA MUTINY.

Location: The Grind Cafe 4124 Main Street

Time: 7-9 pm

This month, get ready for more creative culture-jamming with DIY bookmarks and postcards that can be discreetly slipped inside magazines and other publications featuring sexist and misogynistic content. Their purpose is to challenge rampant objectification of women and to provoke conscious thought in fellow consumers, particularly in young people, who are especially vulnerable to manipulative messages and imagery in the media.

Postcard/bookmark messages can be critical, inspiring, sarcastic, encouraging, eye-opening, funny, or all of the above and more! Quotes or statistics can be included, or you can just write your thoughts on the subject in your own words.

We will provide all the necessary supplies for making postcards and bookmarks – blank cardstock, black and multicolored permanent markers, scissors, etc. You are welcome to bring your own art supplies in addition if you’d like.

Monday Media Mutiny is a once-monthly feminist event organized by Women, Action, & the Media (WAM!) Vancouver, in which interested folks meet to perform a quick action that fights back against sexist representations of women in the media. At the present time, these events take place on the third Monday of each month at 7pm.

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“Mutiny is a conspiracy among members of a group of similarly situated individuals … to openly oppose, change or overthrow an authority to which they are subject. The term is commonly used for a rebellion among members of the military against their superior officer(s), but can also occasionally refer to any type of rebellion against an authority figure.”

– wikipedia

Every third Monday of the month*, WAM! Vancouver will be hosting a Media Mutiny event. It will be an opportunity for feminists in Vancouverto gather together in a friendly space, gather our energies and ideas, and put it all towards an action that allows us to challenge the BS we see all around us, in various forms of sexist and misogynist media.

All costs for the activity are covered. We will be gathering at Rhizome Cafe, so we recommend giving them a wee bit of your business (a tea, a soup, whatever you fancy). All are welcome. If you don’t feel like buying anything, don’t!

The first installment of Media Mutiny Monday:

RAD DIY FEMINIST STICKER MAKING EXTRAVAGANZA

– We will supply the sticker-making stuff (the basics: sticker material, markers, etc)

– Bring your ideas and any other supplies you may wish to incorporate into a DIY sticker (old magazines, for example, may interest some people)

– We will all get together and make stickers with whatever messages we want on them, and then go out into the world and stick away!

*If there’s another day of the week that works better for you, please let us know! (Post here or email us -wamvancouver@gmail.com). We’re starting on Mondays, but we will move these gatherings to another day if it works better.

WAM! Vancouver members are some of Canada’s most prominent feminist bloggers! Here is a sampling of blog posts containing feminist critiques of the media from the feminist blog, Gender Focus, handpicked by Gender Focus editor and WAM! Vancouver member Jarrah Hodge.

WAM! Vancouver organizer Joanna Chiu has also written a blog series for Battered Women’s Support Services’ media literacy campaign (April 15-21, 2012), where she argued that promoting media literacy can help prevent violence against women.

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Thanks for making our second annual conference a success! On March 31, 2012, 100 media makers and activists gathered at Vancouver’s Center for Peace to discuss how media makers and activists can work together to improve coverage of social movements. Panelists and participants analyzed coverage of the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and SlutWalk. Participants also discussed “7 Habits of Highly Effective Feminists” and learned about how artists and art can help promote social movements.

Read Sandra Cuffe’s recap of the conference at Vancouver Media Co-op, and check out the live-tweet commentary on Twitter at #wamvan (tweets collated on the PDF).

Continue the conversation all year round using the #wamvan hashtag and connect with us @wamvancity!

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Happy conference day! Keep the conversation going all through the conference and beyond, and keep people who can’t make it to the conference involved on Twitter by tweeting @wamvancity and using the hashtag #wamvan!

Thanks for all your support!

-WAM!Core Vancouver

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About WAM! Vancouver

WAM! Vancouver is the first Canadian chapter of WAM! (Women, Action & the Media!). WAM! works to connect and support media makers, activists, academics and funders working to advance women's media participation, ownership and representation.

WAM! Vancouver operates under anti-oppression values. We strive to build an accessible community in which members can share resources and engage in dialogue through our listserv, events, social media networks, and our annual conference. We welcome members from across Canada and people of all gender identities.

WAM! Vancouver is located within unceded Coast Salish territory. We stand in solidarity with Indigenous people's territorial and cultural rights.